Pulitzer Prize Board: Respect our authority!
Mark Krotov
Last week, the Pulitzer Prize Board announced the winners of the 2015 prizes. The fiction award went to Anthony Doerr’s All the Light We Cannot See—which was hailed in these… Read more »
Last week, the Pulitzer Prize Board announced the winners of the 2015 prizes. The fiction award went to Anthony Doerr’s All the Light We Cannot See—which was hailed in these… Read more »
The prestigious Hugo Awards have a reputation for recognizing the very best in fantasy and science fiction; the Best Novel category has been won by the likes of Philip K.… Read more »
Ion Trewin, journalist-turned-publisher and director of the Man Booker Prize, has passed away at 71. He was diagnosed with cancer last October, but continued to work with the committee through… Read more »
Giancarlo DiTrapano, founder of the small press/magazine Tyrant Books, has a major award-winning book on his hands. Atticus Lish won the 2015 PEN/Faulkner Award yesterday. Preparation for the Next Life, Lish’s debut,… Read more »
Scott Bonner is not only the director of the Ferguson Municipal Public Library, but in December, he was the only full-time employee. He kept the library open during a tough… Read more »
The second Folio Prize for Fiction is awarded to an American for his a second novel: Family Life by Akhil Sharma. Sharma’s rendering of an American family is deemed “lucid,… Read more »
Highly acclaimed Ojibwe writer Louise Erdrich has just been announced as the latest recipient of the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction, Alexandra Alter reports for the New York… Read more »
One person was missing from yesterday’s Folio Prize announcement, and it wasn’t a snubbed author. Saturday, just before the shortlist announcement, the owner and chairman of the Folio Society passed away. Lord Gavron was 84 and… Read more »
Right now Melville House is at the ABA Winter Institute for the very first time! It’s a big deal to attend such a major bookselling/publishing event, and we’re collectively stoked to… Read more »
Of course Helen Macdonald won the 35,000 pound Costa Prize. She trained a Goshawk and wrote a book about it (weaving in the story of novelist TH White and her… Read more »